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Multitime Landau-Zener model: classification of solvable Hamiltonians

Mathematical Physics 2020-04-17 v2 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics math.MP Quantum Physics

Abstract

We discuss a class of models that generalize the two-state Landau-Zener (LZ) Hamiltonian to both the multistate and multitime evolution. It is already known that the corresponding quantum mechanical evolution can be understood in great detail. Here, we present an approach to classify such solvable models, namely, to identify all their independent families for a given number NN of interacting states and prove the absence of such families for some types of interactions. We also discuss how, within a solvable family, one can classify the scattering matrices, i.e., the system's dynamics. Due to the possibility of such a detailed classification, the multitime Landau-Zener (MTLZ) model defines a useful special function of theoretical physics.

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@article{arxiv.1911.12219,
  title  = {Multitime Landau-Zener model: classification of solvable Hamiltonians},
  author = {Vladimir Y. Chernyak and Nikolai A. Sinitsyn and Chen Sun},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.12219},
  year   = {2020}
}

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Version published on Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical